The appointment of Natasha Fyles’s chief of staff’s brother-in-law as the Police Minister has rubbed the union representing the Territory’s police officers the wrong way, who say appointing the one-year backbencher to the major role has raised “real concerns” the government is not taking the police portfolio seriously.

Fannie Bay MLA Brent Potter was named Police Minister on Monday in a Cabinet shake-up that saw former police minister Kate Worden removed from the difficult role after nearly a year-and-a-half of failures to address the problems in the police force and the wider community crime crisis.

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